Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Afternoon all,


haven't long come in from work...


We are having a site meeting tomorrow.....so daydreaming has now got to go out the window, and reality steps in...

lostinrates

Well....

Looks like we might have a date for electricity upgrade! Neighbours are being amazing about it, digger man coming to look tomorrow. All going well, I might order some heat pumps next week......tempting fete? We could be having a BATH in a month!!!!!

rozeepozee

Hallo all, I've speed read the last five pages. I can't keep up with you

Yes, Money, learning Welsh for five hours a week is a challenge with everything else that's going on. It basically knocks out an entire weekday and a valuable weekday at that as there is only this day and one other day that the kids are all in child care for a full day, otherwise the kids only have child care in three hour slots. It's hard to get anything done in three hours.... However, I have the motivation as the children are all Welsh speakers now and Dw i'n esiau galle siarad Cymraeg gyda nhw! (I need to be able to speak Welsh with them) Well, I think I do. Obviously, it's not obligatory. I also want to learn Welsh as I live here I'm getting to the point where I can speak (we are not allowed to speak English in our class, it's sort of middling advance, Pellach, they call it), but I'm not yet conversational, well, unless you want to have a painfully slow conversation with me pulling at my hair a lot as I try to recall... :rotfl:

Those of you considering underfloor heating: I take it you all know about Polyfloor overlay? It's what our architect recommended as a retrofit. We decided against it in the end as it would have meant changing all the door frames as it raises the floor level.

We have spent double what we thought we would as LIR (or was it Itsme?) predicted. To be fair we've probably done almost double what we thought we would. Our reno list runs to: large double height extension, new roof, loft conversion, new aluminium windows and doors right through, new central heating system (woodburner with this beast http://www.broseleyfires.com/Wood-Burning-Stoves/eVolution-26_Wood-Burning-Boiler-Stove.html), solar thermal, underfloor heating in the extension, new domestic plumbing, new radiators, new electrics, external cladding, new drains, new sewage plant, new utility room, new garage, three new bathrooms.... Basically, we have pretty much only kept the walls and floors and we still haven't got a finished item, but we've cut no corners and we have a house that's hopefully future proofed to an extent. I know in twenty years time, everything we install will be oldhad, but it's hopefully as efficient as a house of this size can be and we can grow into it and even accommodate our Olds, without the need for there to be any additional building work (we will simply fit out spaces that have already been mad available). And we have a house designed to suit our family.

Glad you are moving things along Alf. It's been a huge storm clound hanging over you for so long.

Our hens are laying too, Dave! The old girls haven't started re-laying, so no blue eggs yet, but the Ixworth and Maran pullets are all now in lay. The Maran eggs are disappointingly light. However, they are huge. I bought myself an incubator for my birthday so I'm going to buy some dark Maran hatching eggs and make my own! The Pekins must come into lay soon, too. They are looking very red about the gills.

I am going to enter a couple of my birds in the Welsh National Poultry Show this Sunday for a laugh. Anyone else going?

Sorry I always write an essay when I'm here. I can't sign in as regularly as I'd like as life is just too crazy here at the moment - or will it always be like this?

Davesnave

Just in as well after a fairly difficult day that began with a trip to Exeter after a routine scan for DW needed further evaluation. All's well, fortunately. DW's cousin who would have been the same age, died from the big C in 2012.

For me, a trip through Exeter's puzzling road system , alone and without sat-nav, resulted in finding Screwfix before the garden machinery shop, which seems to go in and out of existence. :oAnyway, I bought some chain saw trousers there which actually fit well, until one comes to the legs.....We are still puzzling over how to take 5" off, or rather whether it's even possible, before handing them over to the village seamstress. If not, I'll return them, but who can tell if another brand would be any different? Perhaps I should ask on 'arbtalk?'

Back home, and my blood pressure monitor has arrived, but I've not switched it on yet.:p I'm due out tonight for a three course dinner with plenty of stuff I probably shouldn't have! :rotfl:

Site meeting CTC? Hmmm. I must get some of the green energy folks to come here PDQ and try to bite that bullet.

alfie_1

rozee..... glad you have survived the storms...
are you entering your goosegogs into the show. they are "well good"

i will pop in here later...gotta eat first

LIR....you in sunday afternoon ?? 1-2pm

Davesnave

I know Polyfloor, rozee, as we saw it at the Building & Renovating Show in November. As you say, it b*ggers with your levels, so we have decided against too, at present. Some of our walls aren't moving! :rotfl:

I agree. Alfie's place might have been idyllic in some respects, but she's had the Sword of [STRIKE]Damocles[/STRIKE] BUHA hanging over her for too long, which must've been so unsettling.:(

Yes, the hens are convinced it's spring and belting the eggs out like it is. Make sure your dark Marans' eggs really are dark. My eBay purchase was disappointing, and now they're laying, I'm not revising my feedback. They are dark brown, but not Very dark brown, as advertised. :mad:

Good news day for you too, lir! :beer:

lostinrates

I don't know poly floor, so I will look into it. .

Wonder how deep it is?

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR....you in sunday afternoon ?? 1-2pm

Think so, so now will make sure we will be.



Not sure what plan is this weekend.

I want to get on with the painting but don't think its going to be dry is it?


Also, some strimming and burning we think. Sunday we might finally varnish the hall way floor upstairs,

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know poly floor, so I will look into it. .

Wonder how deep it is?

It's about 30mm if I remember rightly. There are two types and the rep was super helpful. If we'd wanted to fit ourself, he offered to come and demo how to DIY. The difference in height was enough to make the door heights a problem for my 6'3" OH, though. Funnily enough, he has the opposite problem with chainsaw trousers, Dave.

Glad you had positive news about your DW, Dave. That sort of news can be heartstopping.

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

It's about 30mm if I remember rightly. There are two types and the rep was super helpful. If we'd wanted to fit ourself, he offered to come and demo how to DIY. The difference in height was enough to make the door heights a problem for my 6'3" OH, though. Funnily enough, he has the opposite problem with chainsaw trousers, Dave.

Glad you had positive news about your DW, Dave. That sort of news can be heartstopping.

Our doorways are low anyway in the middle section, I don't see a problem with making them lower in a house like this tbh. If the ceilings were low , yes, but......your husband would have to duck here anyway.


Tbh, DH and I had't noticed the door ways were low, being somewhat 'middle sized' . Most of my local girl friends are really tall for some reason. We have little two seater sofas and its only when my gf's are here I realise our sofas are small.